Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -- --Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Two bits of bad news to dampen a...
Pamela H. Long | Posted 05.22.2012
Most of the people in my Sunday school class are immigrants -- they know very well what it is like to be living in a land where everything around you is foreign to you, and you're foreign to the people around you.
Posted 05.21.2012
This week's "The Colbert Report" took on immigration as one of the five hot button issues. Colbert blamed Alabama's controversial immigration bill, wh...
Posted 05.07.2012
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a stark warning against Alabama's controversial immigration law, which feds say has caused "increased hostil...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Service Employees International Union continued its fight against Alabama immigration law HB 56 on Monday by filing a complaint with...
The Daily Barometer | Posted 04.30.2012
Unlike the recent Affordable Care Act case, the federal government is challenging state legislation, arguing that the immigration law is an overreach for any single state to make.
Pamela H. Long | Posted 04.25.2012
I've had hundreds of conversations with people all over the political spectrum about the immigration "problem." What I see is that people make their decisions to support HB56 or to fight against it on several factors, but not on facts.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the federal government's challenge to the Grand Canyon state's contro...
Pamela H. Long | Posted 04.23.2012
Instead of embracing tolerance and human rights, we once again slinked back into the bog of bigotry.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.19.2012
WASHINGTON -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- who was the first person of Hispanic descent to hold that position and a lightning rod for c...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 04.12.2012
It's hard to keep Alabama out of the news. Two of its recent newsworthy events deserve attention.
Posted 04.11.2012
Despite being hit particularly hard by the recession, immigrants are experiencing faster job growth than native-born Americans in Alabama, Georgia and...
Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.10.2012
Legislative Amendments Insufficient to Address Core Flaws of the Beason-Hammon Act (Washington, DC) – A bill before the Alabama legislature to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- Alabama Republican lawmakers announced a bill last week that would revise the state's immigration law. Opponents of the law aren't impre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.06.2012
WASHINGTON -- Alabama lawmakers took the first step Thursday toward amending -- but not repealing -- the state's contested immigration law. Republ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- A top officer with Daimler Motor Company told opponents of Alabama's immigration law Wednesday that the corporation will not publicly ca...
Judith Browne Dianis | Posted 04.03.2012
It is clear that the Alabama law is accomplishing its goal of, as one of its sponsors stated, making life "unbearable" for immigrants.
The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 04.02.2012
Looks like Elmo and his fellow muppets may be learning more about Latino culture as "Sesame Street" producers reach out to a broader Latino audience. ...
Wade Henderson, Esq. | Posted 05.16.2012
Hyundai, speak out against human rights violations. Money talks, and in Alabama, and until now, your money has been silent.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.16.2012
South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai, which has large plants in Alabama, hasn't responded publicly to the state's extreme immigration law -- yet. Civ...
Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012
By Robbie Ward Mississippi lawmakers moved closer to enacting legislation to crack down on undocumented immigrants in the state, though the proposa...
Bill Ong Hing | Posted 05.12.2012
Choosing sanctuary policies over policies of fear, like those embodied in HB 56, tells immigrants and the rest of us what type of community our leaders and law enforcement officials are choosing.
AP | By JAY REEVES | Posted 03.09.2012
PELHAM, Ala. -- Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigration may keep Charlie Brown and Snoopy from performing in a high school musical. A public high ...
Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.09.2012
A decision by a federal appeals court to block two major provisions of Alabama's immigrant law is a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama.
Gerry Hudson | Posted 05.09.2012
It is imperative that we not only understand the fight against restrictive voter ID laws , but that we also acknowledge that racist, anti-immigration laws, like Alabama's HB56, is an assault on the very values that civil rights marchers stood for nearly 50 years ago.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2012